[Zope] GUF vs. UserDb

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Lucas Vogel wrote:

> What is the difference between these two objects? My first impression of
> UserDb is that it is the GUF implemented as the Database HOWTO suggests,
> except that it handles all logins/permissions for the Zope level and not
> the application level.

They work the same way. GUF is more configurable, but much harder
to setup. If you just want to authenticate out of a RDBMS backend
and don't want to do anything odd (like encrypt your passwords?)
UserDb will be fine.

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